Author: Garett Hennigan

There are many types of epoxy out there. Our personal favourite is System 3 out of Washington state. They make a whole range of products. When we added 5 feet in the middle of our boat in 2013 we used only Silver Tip laminating epoxy. It is great stuff, easy to mix with its 2 to 1 ratio. We used pla...

In our earlier post in 2008 we discussed the Raymarine 4000 Tiller pilot that we installed before we left in 2006 on our trip. As a backup we also purchased another brand new one which we kept installed in a box.

In February 2008 just before we were about to depart on our pacific crossing from Me...

Do you want to know what is like to sail across the ocean? Cruise for two years in the remote areas of the Sea of Cortez? Here is your chance to live the cruising sailing adventure with us. The links on the right navigation bar are our catamaran cruising stories, diaries, and cruising logs a...

The Surgery is Over
Now that our major boat extension project (from 32 feet to 37 feet) is finished we have finally got around to a adding a documentary video on what and how we did it. It is not often you cut your boat right in half! See our "Cutting Light Wave in Half" video on YouTube.

Wow another year!. We hope you have been keeping well with sailing or planning that big cruise. The summer is winding down up here in British Columbia. We did get out for another 2 week trip to beautiful Desolation Sound in June with several long weekends at Tumbo Island.

Dear friends,
Hope you have been keeping well. You may be wondering where we are now and what are we up to so we hope this little postscript/epilogue
sheds some light on our reintegration into “civilization”.

We are now back quite comfortable in our little 480 square foot apartment that we had ...

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here to go back to Part 1 which covers July 3 to July 18)
Saturday July 19, 2008 - Day 15
Carllie: 1136 hours, 1,388 miles to go - officially
past the half way point hurray! The fog cleared as the sun came out today
and provided much-needed heat for today’s outdoor showers. I started rat...

JoEllen Chenoweth (left) was happy to
dive us around between Hanalei and
Princeville to show us the sights. Here you
can see Kaua'i's lush valleys where a lot of
farming is done.
Carllie: We had a wonderful visit with JoEllen Chenoweth, who...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Carllie: It was great to be all settled in to
a lovely bay where we could swim again. The water is so clear, and so warm that
swimming is a pleasure, and we immediately established a daily routine of swimming
aro...